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minus-squarePoopingCough@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63·1 month agoI don’t disagree with your overall point, but statistics like that are almost always heavily skewed because of high infant mortality rates
minus-squaresnooggums@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 month agoThe mortality rate during childbirth was pretty high for women on top of the infant rate. Childbirth as a whole dragged the numbers down.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·28 days ago18th century france is also quite possibly the single worst place and point in time to use as a comparison, there’s a reason people beheaded monarchs.
I don’t disagree with your overall point, but statistics like that are almost always heavily skewed because of high infant mortality rates
The mortality rate during childbirth was pretty high for women on top of the infant rate. Childbirth as a whole dragged the numbers down.
18th century france is also quite possibly the single worst place and point in time to use as a comparison, there’s a reason people beheaded monarchs.